Worm Breeder's Gazette 14(5): 11 (February 1, 1997)
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University of Minnesota, 250 Biological Sciences Center, 1445 Gortner Ave, St. Paul, MN 55108.
May 31, 1997 will mark the end of our current five-year contract
with the NIH National Center for Research Resources, which supports the
activities of the CGC. The activities in St. Paul have involved
primarily the acquisition, maintenance and distribution of stocks and
information about stocks, acquisition and maintenance of the C. elegans
bibliography, and publication and distribution of The Worm Breeder's
Gazette (WBG) and WBG Subscriber Directory.
Genetic nomenclature and the genetic map have been managed for the
period 1992-1997 by Jonathan Hodgkin (CGC Map Curator) on a subcontract.
Currently, the subcontract provides half of Sylvia Martinelli's salary,
plus travel and minor expenses. Additional support from within the MRC
Laboratory of Molecular Biology and the Sanger Centre has been used to
fund other essential resources such as computer equipment, as well as
Jonathan's and Richard Durbin's time. Richard has been involved in
mapkeeping through his work on ACeDB. We are pleased that Jonathan,
Richard and Sylvia agreed to continue their work for another five years.
We have submitted an application for a new five year contract that would
include a subcontract for nomenclature and mapkeeping on essentially the
same terms as before. A description of the nomenclature and mapkeeping
activities is given in the following abstract.
We are grateful to Leon Avery for setting up our CGC gopher server
and also for arranging for the electronic submission of WBG abstracts
(as well as abstracts for various C. elegans meetings). His C. elegans
WWW server has become an essential resource for the worm community. We
were therefore pleased to include Leon (only 5% effort) in a second
subcontract as part of our new CGC application.
We welcome comments and suggestions about any of the CGC
activities.